It is silly to me that you can't award reputation points / mark an answer as having helped you if you did not post the original question. I think it would be helpful to other users with the same question to know whether an answer helped people. Maybe the person who originally posted the question hasn't been helped, but someone else has...

I think it would be helpful to other users with the same question to know whether an answer helped people.

That results in ballet stuffing.

If you wish to control the thread, you start the thread. Everyone else just gets to say "Thanks" and those of us that have been helpful appreciate that too.

Besides people that are really helpful, generally get points over time anyway, even when the original poster runs out of points to give, and when others that find a solution in someone else's post and cannot award points.

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